Compliance Buddy is SureStep’s AI-powered copilot for compliance teams, designed to ingest regulatory content, interpret obligations, and translate complex requirements into clear, actionable tasks. It provides an intelligent, always-available interface for asking questions and accessing a continuously updated representation of regulatory knowledge—giving teams faster insight, stronger traceability, and seamless integration into their GRC environment.
The Challenge: Overwhelming Regulatory Volume and Manual Interpretation
Compliance professionals face a constant flood of updates across laws, rules, guidance, supervisory statements, and enforcement actions. Interpreting these requirements, determining relevance, and pushing actions into operational workflows is slow, manual, and inconsistent. Teams risk missing obligations, duplicating effort, or delaying implementation as they navigate fragmented sources of regulatory information.
Why You Need an AI Copilot for Compliance
Regulatory change is accelerating across every jurisdiction, and organizations are expected to interpret, assess, and operationalize updates with unprecedented speed. Compliance teams are inundated with rules, guidance documents, interpretations, consultation papers, and supervisory expectations—each carrying potential obligations, deadlines, and risks. Relying on manual reading and fragmented tracking methods leaves institutions exposed, especially when regulators increasingly expect proactive, timely, and well-documented responses.
Traditional processes simply cannot keep pace with the volume and complexity of modern regulatory content. Teams spend countless hours reviewing dense legal text, searching for relevant obligations, and attempting to connect updates to existing controls, policies, and testing activities. These manual steps create bottlenecks and inconsistencies, reducing the organization’s ability to respond with clarity and confidence. The result is a reactive compliance posture, where issues are identified late and operational impacts cascade across the business.
An AI copilot fundamentally changes this equation. By ingesting regulatory content, structuring it, and enabling intuitive Q&A, Compliance Buddy delivers immediate comprehension and consistent interpretation. It surfaces obligations, identifies expected actions, and provides defensible reasoning—supporting compliance officers in making faster, more accurate decisions. When paired with automated task extraction and integration into your GRC system, Compliance Buddy becomes a force multiplier that shifts compliance from manual processing to an intelligent, proactive capability.
Compliance Buddy—Your AI Compliance Copilot
Compliance Buddy ingests regulatory text from global and local sources and converts it into a structured, machine-readable knowledge model. Users can ask questions in natural language—about obligations, expected actions, definitions, or impacts—and receive immediate, contextual answers backed by cited regulatory references.
The system identifies obligations, extracts tasks, and generates recommended actions that can be automatically dispatched to your GRC platform for review and execution. Compliance teams gain a centralized intelligence layer that continuously learns and evolves as new rules and updates are published.
Core Capabilities
- Regulatory Ingestion: Automatically processes statutes, rules, guidance, and supervisory updates into a structured knowledge representation.
- Knowledge Retrieval and Q&A: Provides conversational access to regulatory meaning, obligations, and expectations using an intelligent regulatory knowledge model.
- Obligation and Task Extraction: Identifies required actions, deadlines, dependencies, and control impacts—turning raw text into clear compliance tasks.
- GRC System Integration: Exports tasks, obligations, and mapped controls directly into your GRC platform, enabling seamless workflow activation.
- Regulatory Traceability: Maintains clear links between source text, extracted actions, and compliance evidence—supporting defensible audit and regulatory engagement.
Driving ROI with Compliance Buddy
By automating regulatory interpretation and task creation, Compliance Buddy reduces manual effort, accelerates compliance readiness, and delivers consistent, defensible outputs. It allows teams to focus on judgment, governance, and strategic decision-making rather than repetitive reading and interpretation.
Compliance Buddy transforms regulatory change management from a manual burden into an intelligent, automated, and proactive capability—strengthening compliance resilience across your entire organization.
